BBC One Unveils Fall Slate

LONDON, July 11: BBC One has unveiled its fall programming
slate, with highlights that include new drama adaptations of classic fairy
tales.

BBC One’s new drama lineup includes four adaptations of
classic fairy tales made popular by The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson
and Charles Perrault. These include The Empress’s New Clothes, adapted by Debbie Horsfield and starring Denise Van
Outen (Any Dream Will Do, Chicago) and Liz White (Life On Mars). The new adaptation sees the fairy tale emperor as
a fading soap star who is an uncompromising slave to fashion. Other fairy tales
featured in the anthology include Rapunzel, starring Lee Ingleby, Charity Wakefield and Shaun Williamson; Cinderella starring James Nesbitt and Maxine Peake; and Billy
Goat starring Bernard Hill, Paul Nicholls,
Mathew Horne and Sarah Smart.

Drama series like Spooks,
Waterloo Road, Silent
Witness and Murphy's Law will all return this fall to BBC One. The BAFTA- and
RTS-award-winning series The Street, starring Timothy Spall as a taxi driver named Eddie, also returns for a
second season this fall. Spall also stars in Oliver Twist, a BBC One adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens
novel.

For entertainment programming, new series include Who
Dares Win, a new Saturday night National
Lottery show hosted by Nick Knowles, in which complete strangers are coupled up
to put their general knowledge and nerve to the ultimate test. The channel will
also air the Saturday night event Eurovision Dance Contest, which will see professional and amateur dancers
compete for a new international crown.

The award-winning entertainment shows Friday Night With
Jonathan Ross, Strictly Come
Dancing and Have I Got News For
You all make it back onto BBC One’s
schedule this fall.

New comedy dramas are also launching this fall, including Learners,
which follows the trials and tribulations
of a group of learner drivers. It was written by Jessica Hynes, who stars in
the series along with David Tennant and Shaun Dingwall. Mutual
Friends follows the disastrous sequence of
events for happily married man Martin after his best friend Carl throws himself
under a train. People Like Us (formerly
known as the Dinner Party) is set
in suburban England.

Also on the comedy end, British-Iranian comedian Omid
Djalili joins BBC One this fall with his own stand up and sketch show. The
multi-award winning Djalili has completed U.S. and U.K. sell-out tours, and has
appeared in numerous Hollywood blockbusters like Gladiator and The Mummy. Other new titles include the sketch comedy The Armstrong
& Miller Show and Outnumbered,
about the daily chaos of family life.
Returning comedy programs include After You've Gone, Not Going Out and The Green Green Grass.

As for news and current affairs programs, the network will
feature a series of candid interviews with former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair, who will look back on his decade in power. New factual series include Michael
Palin’s New Europe as well as The
Nature of Britain, which was produced by
the BBC's Natural History Unit and presents the first complete picture of
British wildlife shown on television.

Who Do You Think You Are
and What Not To Wear also return
to BBC One in the fall.